Professor Sandy O’Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary person working in the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures at Macquarie University, where they are a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. The project explores the unique contribution of queer artists to understand how modelling complex identities contributes to the wellbeing of all First Nations' peoples. They have worked across universities for over thirty years, and their work includes Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, museums (looking at gender and Indigenous Peoples). In addition to their academic work, Sandy has been a musician, performer and sound artist since 1982 holding national and international arts residencies.